...ves of Windsor (1602) and Othello (1605), they were not created by William Shakespeare, and indeed were mentioned as early as the 5th century BC in "the Histories
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...'s Dream''. In Shakespeare's play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy quee
In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name 'Titania' from Ovid's '’Metamorphoses'', where it is an app
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The earliest written account of Herne comes from from Shakespeare's ''Merry Wives of Windsor'' in 1597:
::— William Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''
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* William Shakespeare (circa 1602), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Sc. III:
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...and they shall have good luck" said one of William Shakespeare's fairies. Shakespeare's characterization of "shrewd and knavish" Puck in ''A Midsummer Night's Dr
* [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/ideas/folklore.html A folklore page, with a 1639 Puritan image
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...ylphide” as well as a confusion with other "airy spirits" (e.g. in William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''), sylphs have become often identified with
...sylph in "The Rape of the Lock" has the same name as Prospero's servant in Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'': Ariel.
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...'''Auberon''', King of the fairy, is most famous as a character in William Shakespeare's play, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', written in the mid-1590s. Oberon giv
Shakespeare saw or heard of the French heroic song, through the ''ca'' 1540 translation
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[[Image:Caliban.JPG|thumb|250px|right|[[William Hogarth|William Hogarth's]] painting "The Tempest", depicting Caliban carrying a load of wo
'''Caliban''' is a fictional character in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''The Tempest'', a deformed monster who is the slave of '''Prospero'''.
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Queen '''Mab''' is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet''.
Shakespeare depicted her in almost mockingly in:
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...ll take. Such an example of this is the contrast of Hamlet the legend, and Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. When a legend that is rooted in a kernel of truth is so stron
*[[William Tell]]
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...xon, rather than Celtic, beliefs and is first mentioned in 1597 in William Shakespeare's play ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', Act 4, Scene 4. It is, however, poss
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...donkey's head. Orson Scott Card's ''Magic Street'' adds new fairy lore to Shakespeare's story and offers an alternative history of the play.
Shakespeare carefully put in the mouth of his fairies:
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[[Image:Hecate-blake.jpg|thumb|right|Depiction of Hecate by William Blake.]]
...s (Act III, Scene v, and a portion of Act IV, Scene i) were not written by Shakespeare, but was added during a revision by Thomas Middleton, who used material fro
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...Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' to warn Brutus of his impending defeat. In Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'', the title character believes he sees the "blood-bolter'd" gh
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*In William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the spirit Ariel disguises himself as a harpy to deliver t
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...and subtlety. In these regards, he is similar to the character of Iago in Shakespeare's ''Othello''. (This could also be considered along the lines of an antiher
...dled with the dominance of secularism among the western intelligentsia. In William Blake's ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'' the "voice of the devil" argue
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...rgues that if we were rigorous with our definitions, [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[The Tempest (play)|The Tempest]]'' would have to be termed sci
...iction. Examples include [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'', [[William Burroughs]]'s ''[[Nova Express]]'', [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]'s ''[[Never Let Me G
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...oger Bacon]], [[Bonaventure]], [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[John Duns Scotus]], [[William of Ockham]], [[Nicholas of Cusa]], and [[Francisco Suárez]]. A female Chr
[[Image:Wm_james.jpg|100px|thumb|left|[[William James]]]]
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...entered English as ''[[Oberon]]'' – king of elves and [[fairies]] in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (see below).
...origins was the influence from literature. In Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare imagined elves as little people. He apparently considered elves and fairies
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...Caribs. [[Richard Hakluyt]]'s ''Voyages'' introduced the word to English. Shakespeare transposed it, anagram-fashion, to name his monster servant in ''The Tempes
William Arens, author of ''The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy'' (N
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